"Personally, I wish we'd dealt wish North Korea a long, long time ago"
This is indeed wishful thinking, but one must consider many factors that were not present or as pressing in the case of Iraq.
NK is armed to the teeth. Pretty much, every North Korean over 14 has been trained to use an AK 47. Their citizens are indoctrinated at levels perhaps unprecedented in post-WWII history. Not only that but they have actually built a nuclear weapon. Before anyone starts planning for invasion in the North, he has to answer the following questions:
a) What would the human toll on South Korea be? For example, Seoul is within artillery range from NK.
b) Apparently military victory over NK can be achieved but what would be the human and financial cost on the US? Given the size of the enemy military, I would guess this would be far more than the cost of the 1st Gulf war.
c) How would South Korea and the global economy deal with the major interruption in production of the South Korean goods (cars, ships, electronics etc) the world has come to rely on?
d) What would the human toll on North Korea be? From prior experience, "collateral"damage cannot be avoided. And this is particularly true in the case of NK, the leader of which has no regard for the lives of his citizens. Do we really think that the response to heavy shelling or nuking of Seoul would be surgical bombings? Think hordes of B-52s flying over Pyongyang, dropping 20000 lb bombs day and night instead.
e) How do you deal with the subsequent occupation of North Korea? How can you change the minds of the indoctrinated North Koreans? How can you make them understand that South Koreans are their brothers and not their sworn enemies, especially after a second brutal war?
f) And perhaps the most important of all: do you really think China will just sit back and watch as US takes under its control all the Korean Peninsula? What about Russia? China created this regime and for a good reason (from their point of view). This reason has not ceased to exist.
I gather that the US foreigh policy makers have considered these factors and decided that it is not worth the trouble, even if North Korea develops both ICBM nuclear capability.
One of my favorite parts of the joke was the testimonial:
"Now that I have Gmail Paper, I understand the difference between labels and folders. I had one message with two labels, but when I tried to stick the paper version into two filing cabinets at the same time, it just wouldnâ(TM)t go."
"If a poster on a forum posted information on where to find Barack Obama, and a death threat, would you expect the server that hosted that forum to be seized?"
The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC. Now let's get him!
counting down to FBI showing up at the door... 100, 99...
The laid off personnel was good enough to be hired by MS, meaning that they have the necessary qualifications. H1-B allows foreign workers to work only if there are not enough qualified US citizens for the same positions.
If MS keeps H1Bs and fires Americans that would be not only illegal but unethical too. After all MS would be nowhere if the predecessors of US citizens they fire did not struggle to build this country. There are limits to open immigration policies!
PS: I am a foreign student, soon to graduate and _attempt_ to enter the US job market. I would expect my own country to get rid first of the equivalent H1Bs in a similar situation.
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someone please mod down this ignorant bigoted tool.
http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php
Congrats on a fast but subtle Godwining
ghaH Dun yIn !!!
Loved your post, but a minor correction here:
"Socrates (another filthy slob who couldn't keep a normal living arrangement, and lived in a barrel) "
You must be referring to Diogenes the cynic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes_of_Sinope.
Socrates was not as filthy and he actually had a wife and a normal house.
'nough said :)
Two projects that do what you say that I know of:
http://flashback.calit2.uci.edu/apache2-default/
http://sns.cs.princeton.edu/2009/04/firecoral-iptps/
"So, while the US is safe, the most part of Asia has to worry."
Yeah, we are safe cause as everyone knows, extending the range of a long range missile is an impossible engineering feat ...
"Personally, I wish we'd dealt wish North Korea a long, long time ago"
This is indeed wishful thinking, but one must consider many factors that were not present or as pressing in the case of Iraq.
NK is armed to the teeth. Pretty much, every North Korean over 14 has been trained to use an AK 47. Their citizens are indoctrinated at levels perhaps unprecedented in post-WWII history. Not only that but they have actually built a nuclear weapon.
Before anyone starts planning for invasion in the North, he has to answer the following questions:
a) What would the human toll on South Korea be?
For example, Seoul is within artillery range from NK.
b) Apparently military victory over NK can be achieved but what would be the human and financial cost on the US? Given the size of the enemy military, I would guess this would be far more than the cost of the 1st Gulf war.
c) How would South Korea and the global economy deal with the major interruption in production of the South Korean goods (cars, ships, electronics etc) the world has come to rely on?
d) What would the human toll on North Korea be? From prior experience, "collateral"damage cannot be avoided. And this is particularly true in the case of NK, the leader of which has no regard for the lives of his citizens. Do we really think that the response to heavy shelling or nuking of Seoul would be surgical bombings? Think hordes of B-52s flying over Pyongyang, dropping 20000 lb bombs day and night instead.
e) How do you deal with the subsequent occupation of North Korea? How can you change the minds of the indoctrinated North Koreans? How can you make them understand that South Koreans are their brothers and not their sworn enemies, especially after a second brutal war?
f) And perhaps the most important of all: do you really think China will just sit back and watch as US takes under its control all the Korean Peninsula? What about Russia? China created this regime and for a good reason (from their point of view). This reason has not ceased to exist.
I gather that the US foreigh policy makers have considered these factors and decided that it is not worth the trouble, even if North Korea develops both ICBM nuclear capability.
Sure the queen does not really know about any important political or defense issues, but
the Royal family itself is a national security issue.
The last the Brits need is foreign spooks eavesdropping on their first family's dirty laundry. Think of the blackmailing possibilities!
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=59502659200
Even if you use O_SYNC, or fsync() there is no guarantee that the data are safely stored on disk.
You also have to disable HDD caching, e.g., using /dev/hda1
hdparm -W0
"...not that I'd ever be able to get a wife (let alone a girlfriend), but at least I made a good car analogy ;-)"
With your sense of humor, it would be a pity if you don't :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
One of my favorite parts of the joke was the testimonial:
"Now that I have Gmail Paper, I understand the difference between labels and folders. I had one message with two labels, but when I tried to stick the paper version into two filing cabinets at the same time, it just wouldnâ(TM)t go."
Mayumi M., Associate
Am I the only one who read it as:
"the Herschel telescope close to the Russian city of Blastof" ?
Or that Swedish syntax and expressions are amazingly similar to English.
The 80's called and want their GPS-guided cruise missile technology back or at least acknowledged
"If a poster on a forum posted information on where to find Barack Obama, and a death threat, would you expect the server that hosted that forum to be seized?"
The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC. Now let's get him!
counting down to FBI showing up at the door ... 100, 99 ...
The laid off personnel was good enough to be hired by MS, meaning that they have the necessary qualifications. H1-B allows foreign workers to work only if there are not enough qualified US citizens for the same positions.
If MS keeps H1Bs and fires Americans that would be not only illegal but unethical too. After all MS would be nowhere if the predecessors of US citizens they fire did not struggle to build this country. There are limits to open
immigration policies!
PS: I am a foreign student, soon to graduate and _attempt_ to enter the US job market. I would expect my own country to get rid first of the equivalent H1Bs in a similar situation.
"The gas was detected with observations made over several Martian years with NASA smeloscopes at Mauna Kea, Hawaii."
And to answer my own question (hate doing it on /. but somebody has to set the record straight).
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=Senthil%20Cheetancheri&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=ws
There is no published work on his so called groundbreaking research:
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=Senthil%20Cheetancheri&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=ws
I would expect much higher story verification standards by Cmdr Taco and NetworkWorld
Another related actually high profile published work on the subject:
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1159961
So where is the paper/thesis/documentation of any type whatsoever that describes their p2p solution?
Collaborative p2p worm containment has been around for ever, what does Senthil Cheetancheri's proposal has to offer over previous work?
a small subset of prior work that does exactly what the clueless article sais they do.
http://gridsec.usc.edu/wormshield/
http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=66830
PS: I doubt Senthil's research reinvents the wheel but I would appreciate an actual link to his work from the /. story.
Your comment is absolutely wrong.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_language
R is a Turing complete programming language. The fact that it requires an interpreter is completely irrelevant.
I hate to reply to my posts, but this link has an even shorter description of the tool:
conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2008/papers/p505-puchaA.pdf